[plug] K-word

[James Elliott]

Thanks Sol

James Elliott

----- Original Message -----
From: "sol" <sol at autonomon.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] K-word


> What version of Kword are you using? I found that Kword pre-1.0 crashed
> frequently. Presently I'm running Kword 1.1.1 and it's never crashed. Plus
> I've discovered that it's really well designed forcing the user to choose
> whether to work in a text oriented layout (like all other WYWIWYG word
> processors) or a frame based page oriented layout which is much better for
> doing proper desktop publishing. The export filters still need a lot of
work.
>
> Have you considered upgrading? KDE 3.0 is out now. :-)
>
> It sounds odd that Kword could crash X completely. JFTR, I write all my
> assignments using LyX cos it does all the typesetting for me, is great at
> footnotes, bibliographies, etc, and even if there's a power cut, when you
> reboot it will have saved a copy which was accurate to the letter when the
> power went down. It can export in PDF too which makes the files very
portable.
>
> Good luck with your assignment!
> sol
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